[Μανουήλ Φιλής - ΦΙΛΗ περί ΖΩΩΝ ΙΔΙΟΤΗΤΟΣ] “PHILE DE ANIMALIUM PROPRIETATE, ex prima editione arsenii et libro Oxoniensi restitutus A J.C. DE PAUW… G. BERSMANNI… », Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht], G. Stouw, 1730. Small 4to, pp.xvi, 347, [3]index, [2]. Original Greek text with translation in Latin, engraved initials and chapter ornaments. Contemporary hardboard binding worn along edges and joints, untrimmed edges. Stain on lower part of title page and signs of a water-stain on last sheets. Manuel Philes [Μανουήλ Φιλής] (ca. 1275-1340), was a Byzantine author and poet with the current work dealing mainly with birds and mammals characteristics, based on Aelian and Oppian. The present edition includes the original Greek text with Gregorius Bersmans 1596 Latin translation and commentary by the Dutch philologist Johannes Cornelis de Pauw and is dedicated to Abraham Gronovius, librarian of Leiden University Library. Graesse V, 263; Hoffmann III, 64, Wood, p. 518, Brunet IV, 602.